Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The
Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw in
Penguin Classics. The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been
close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a
first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English gentleman, and
Leonora his perfect wife, but beneath the surface their marriage
seethes with unhappiness and deception. Our only window on the
strange tangle of events surrounding Edward is provided by John
Dowell, the husband he deceives. Gradually Dowell unfolds a
devastating story, in which everyone's honesty is in doubt. The
Good Soldier is a masterpiece of narrative skill and emotional
depth. David Bradshaw's introduction discusses John Dowell as the
classic unreliable narrator and as English literature's most
fascinating enigma, and shows how Ford Madox Ford's unconventional
narrative structure makes The Good Soldier a modernist masterwork.
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), born in Surrey and educated in
England, Germany and France, changed his original surname, Hueffer,
in 1919, after having served with the British army in World War I.
As well as founding both the English Review and the Transatlantic
Review, home to such writers as James Joyce, Ezra Pound and
Gertrude Stein, Ford was the author of more than sixty works
including novels, poems, criticism, travel writing and
reminiscences. The Good Soldier (1915) is considered his
masterpiece. If you enjoyed The Good Soldier, you might like Ford's
Parade's End, also available in Penguin Classics, and now the
subject of a major new BBC/HBO television miniseries. 'A
masterpiece' Julian Barnes, Booker Prize-winning author of The
Sense of an Ending 'I don't know how many times in nearly forty
years I have come back to this novel' Graham Greene
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